From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 10:10:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EEE16A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:10:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from psych.st-andrews.ac.uk (psych.st-and.ac.uk [138.251.11.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3FA43D1F for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:10:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from s_sourceforge@nedprod.com) Received: from kate (res04-ned6.res.st-and.ac.uk [138.251.234.67]) by psych.st-andrews.ac.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA18545 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:10:51 GMT From: "Niall Douglas" To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:10:25 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <419F1811.27008.22997A86@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20041119211734.LESF29395.lakermmtao08.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net> X-PM-Encryptor: IDWPGP-PM32, 4 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Question about our default pthread stack size X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:10:54 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I assume that FreeBSD merely reserves the virtual address space for thread stacks, committing memory as needed? Otherwise 1Mb per thread seems awfully expensive. Cheers, Niall -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: idw's PGP-Frontend 4.9.6.1 / 9-2003 + PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBQZ8YEcEcvDLFGKbPEQIalQCgpoRGlSxFTd+L8L3EC1kiTDL//qUAn3lc ONKq6ZcwtygIhluHb4Lq1rbr =ZmB2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----